The borderlands of culture [electronic resource] Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary / Ramon Saldivar.
Material type: TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.Description: x, 525 p. : ill., mapSubject(s):- Paredes, Americo, 1915-1999
- American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism
- Mexican American authors -- Biography
- Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life
- American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History and criticism
- Transnationalism
- Mexican-American Border Region -- In literature
- Mexican-American Border Region -- Intellectual life
- PS3531.A525 Z88 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-502) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : In memoriam -- pt. 1. History and remembrance as social aesthetics -- 1. "The memory is all that matters" -- 2. A life in the borderlands -- pt. 2. Fictions of the transnational imaginary -- 3. The checkerboard of consciousness in George Washington Gomez -- 4. Transnational modernisms : Paredes, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Bulosan, and the four freedoms -- 5. Paredes and the modernist vernacular intellectuals : George I. Sanchez and Emma Tenayuca -- 6. The borders of modernity -- 7. Bilingual aesthetics and the law of the heart -- 8. Border subjects and transnational sites : The hammon and the beans and other stories -- 9. Narrative and the idioms of race, nation, and identity -- 10. The postwar borderlands and the origins of the transnational imaginary : the occupation-era writings in Pacific stars and stripes and El universal -- 11. The shadow and the imaginary functioning of institutions -- Conclusion : A transsentimental journey -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.
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